While the world has more serious concerns, confirming or debunking the rumor about South of the Border's demise seemed urgent to me. In it, a few leadership principles are evident in the founder and his family members who now steward Pedro’s legacy. When Robeson County, NC, went dry in 1949, Alan Schafer opened a small beer stand just a few yards across the state line in Dillon County, SC. Anyone in Robeson County who wanted to buy alcohol - legal alcohol, that is - would have to cross the county line in one direction or another to get it. https://www.theassemblync.com/place/south-of-the-border/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1979/01/07/south-of-the-border-down-carolina-way/3090a021-2fb5-457c-8fdb-b17ec4022d44/The views and opinions expressed in my Thursday Thoughts on Leadership are my own.

Source: Washington Post August 01, 2024 14:49 UTC